Tune in Tuesday | Beatles, Rolling Stones roll out new releases

The oldest debate in rock 'n' roll history is back: Beatles or Stones?

It's been going on since the early 1960s, with hard-core Beatles fans citing the band's groundbreaking run that peaked, culturally speaking, with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." The Rolling Stones camp favors the gut-check blues and gritty realism of Mick and Keith.

Meanwhile, the smart music lover just listens to both. If that's you, this is a banner day.

The Beatles are getting a comprehensive overhaul on vinyl with the release of all 16 official Beatles releases, starting with "Please Please Me" and ending with "Past Masters," all of them remastered in stereo and pressed on 180-gram virgin vinyl. However, digital masters were apparently used, which has analog purists worried. Available separately or in the "Stereo Vinyl Box Set," which includes a 252-page book.

The 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones is being celebrated with "GRRR!," a greatest-hits/best-of set that is available as a two-CD set, a three-CD version with 50 songs, a five-CD super deluxe edition with DVD, and a five-LP boxed set. Two new songs, "Gloom and Doom" and "One Last Shot," will be available in all cases.

Soundgarden has returned to the studio and made "King Animal," the grunge pioneers' first album of new songs in 16 years; Jah Wobble & Keith Levene, from Public Image Ltd, make their first new music together in more than 30 years with "Yin & Yang."